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Some account of domestic architecture in England from Edward I to Richard II, with notices of foreign examples and numerous illustrations of existing remains from original drawings (1882)

Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford : J.H. Parker · leaf 147

An illustration from Some account of domestic architecture in England from Edward I to Richard II, with notices of foreign examples and numerous illustrations of existing remains from original drawings, 1882, leaf 147 — 90 DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE : FOURTEENTH CENTURY. The chimney-shafts of the twelfth and thirteenth centuriesare commonly round andtall; in the fourteenth theyare more frequently oc-tagonal, and the use oftall chimneys was still con-tinued, of which we have agood example in the arch-bishops palace at… … Chimney, Old Woodstock, and placed on the point of the gable, as at Burford, Oxford-shire ; these are frequently terminated by a sort of spire,sometimes crocketed like a pinnacle, with apertures ofvarious forms under it, and sometimes in it also, for theescape of the smoke. Inother instances these…

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